At Robbye’s Western Wear in Theodore, Ala., a Mobile suburb, the cowboy boots are marked way down, the fancy belt buckles are in deep discount and spirits are getting lower by the day.

After 30 years, Robbye’s Western Wear is headed into the sunset, a casualty of the oil spill and its aftermath, according to Jeff Fisher, co-owner of the long-time family enterprise anchored by B&R Campers next door, the Mobile Press-Register reported.

Located on U.S. 90 West, just south of Interstate 10, Robbye’s and B&R received a one-two punch from the spill, according to Fisher.

RV sales plummeted, and, with fewer snowbirds, casual tourists, and beachgoers on their way to Dauphin Island, the Western shop became a lonesome corral some days.

“The Western wear store is being sacrificed to provide revenue for the campers,” said Fisher, referring to B&R, named for his parents, Bill and Robbye Fisher.

Fisher and his brothers run the RV side; his mother, Robbye Fisher, manages the clothing store. His father is deceased.

Robbye’s Western Wear opened in 1981, he said, to offset the slow sales of campers and RVs during the winter.

Now, sales are slow all around, he said.

“Since the oil spill,” said Fisher, “it’s the first time in our history that we’ve gone into negative numbers.

“I’ve gritted my teeth,” he said. “At what point do I cut my losses?”

It’s a question that has been nagging Fisher, with deepening intensity, for the better part of a year.

Fisher said that he had received only one check, to date, for an oil spill damage claim. That amount was comparable to a month’s revenue, he said.

He recently filed for a final settlement claim, he said, but has not received word on compensation. “I’m not at liberty to give the exact amount,” he said of the filing, “but it’s six figures.”

In the meantime, he said, “as a family we’ve taken money out of our pocket to keep the business going.”

He had to lay off long-term workers, taking his 15 full-time employees down to seven part-time.

“It’s bittersweet,” said Robbye Fisher, 70, presiding over the Western store with one of her daughters-in-law, Lisa Fisher.